David E. Johnson

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David E. Johnson (born December 21, 1946, in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American linguist. He is the co-inventor of arc pair grammar.

Work

Johnson is best known for his work on relational grammar, especially the development with Paul Postal in 1977 of arc pair grammar.^[1]

In the late 1990s, Johnson and Shalom Lappin published the first detailed critiques of Noam Chomsky's Minimalist program.^[2][3] This work was followed by a lively debate with proponents of minimalism on the scientific status of the program^[4][5][6]